Gaston Karel Mathilde Burssens (18 February 1896 – 29 January 1965) was a
Belgian
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Expressionist
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poet. He studied at the Dutch-language
Von Bissing University in Ghent during the
German occupation of Belgium during World War I.
Biography
Like that of
Paul van Ostaijen
Paul van Ostaijen (22 February 1896 – 18 March 1928) was a Belgian Dutch-language poet and writer.
Nickname
Van Ostaijen was born in Antwerp to Dutch father and Flemish mother. His nickname was ''Mister 1830'', derived from his habit of walk ...
, during the 1920s his work evolved from humanitarian expressionism towards a more organic expressionism – upon which his poetry stayed focused on musicality. Van Ostaijen's not earlier published poems were published posthumously by Burssens.
Burssens received the'' 'Driejaarlijkse Prijs voor Poëzie, a reward for poetry granted every third year, for 1950–52, and once again for 1956–58.
Works
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* 1918 ''Verzen''
* 1919 ''De Yadefluit''
* 1920 ''Liederen uit de stad en uit de sel''
* 1924 ''Piano''
* 1926 ''Enzovoort''
* 1930 ''Klemmen voor zangvogels''
* 1933 ''Paul van Ostaijen zoals hij was en is ''
* 1935 ''French en andere cancan''
* 1941 ''De eeuw van Pericles''
* 1943 ''Elegie''
* -- ''Floris Jespers''
* 1945 ''Fabula rasa''
* 1946 ''12 niggersongs''
* 1952 ''Pegasos van Troja''
* -- ''Boy''
* 1954 ''Ode''
* 1956 ''Floris Jespers''
* -- ''Paul van Ostaijen''
* -- ''Het neusje van de inktvis''
* 1956 ''Debuut met Plagiaat''
* 1958 ''Adieu''
* 1961 ''Posthume verzen''
* 1981 ''Verzameld proza''
* 2005 ''Alles is mogelijk in een gedicht. Verzamelde verzen 1914-1965''
References
External links
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1896 births
1965 deaths
Expressionist poets
Flemish poets
Flemish activists
20th-century Belgian poets
Belgian male poets
20th-century Belgian male writers